Self-portrait 1847

On the cap band designation: 3. R. – the third company of the 5 th Line Battalion, comprising Shevchenko served as ordinary in Orsk Fortress.

Self-portrait was the album that belonged to A.I. Lyzogub (ark. number 19). On a sheet below portrait placed inscription with ink by hand of A.I.Lyzogub: T. Shevchenko. Above right is marked with ink: 19.

Dated by the time of arrival of Shevchenko to Orsk and after the letter by A. Lyzogub on 07 Jan 1848 where he wrote about this self-portrait:

"Your letter, beloved friend, I get at New Year. Great gratitude for you for the letter and for you; but it is hard to see you" ("Kievan antiquity, 1900, bk. IX, p. 316).